VGEsoterica
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This is one of "those games" for me...the one's you play once and remember forever. When I was out at the U.S. Freeskiing Open in Vail, Colorado in 2005 the hotel I was staying at had a cabinet in the game room, and I figured "why not. I'll give it a shot"...having never heard of the Hyper Neo Geo 64 before that.
One credit and I was absolutely hooked. It had everything I'd want in a game. Fast paced action, solid gameplay, some legit good gore, and unlike The House of the Dead (which I do love) the overall theme of the game took away all the campiness of the rest of the zombie shooting genre and replaced it with way more of a straight horror aesthetic.
It was made by SNK and ADK, so it's the only game out of the seven on the Hyper Neo Geo that SNK didn't make exclusively, so perhaps that's why it feels different. But to this day I maintain it's one of the arcades best hidden gems to never get a home port. I will say however getting it to run at home is a bit of a nightmare. You need to make a custom JAMMA edge adapter for it AND rewire an X/Y DB15 flight stick for controls. The OG guns were MASSIVE cabinet mounted deals. Even if you can find one in working order, dealing with it would be it's own special nightmare.
But its an absolutely awesome game that more people should check out if given the opportunity. I wish SNK would revisit the franchise outside of a weird mobile game from a few years back.
One credit and I was absolutely hooked. It had everything I'd want in a game. Fast paced action, solid gameplay, some legit good gore, and unlike The House of the Dead (which I do love) the overall theme of the game took away all the campiness of the rest of the zombie shooting genre and replaced it with way more of a straight horror aesthetic.
It was made by SNK and ADK, so it's the only game out of the seven on the Hyper Neo Geo that SNK didn't make exclusively, so perhaps that's why it feels different. But to this day I maintain it's one of the arcades best hidden gems to never get a home port. I will say however getting it to run at home is a bit of a nightmare. You need to make a custom JAMMA edge adapter for it AND rewire an X/Y DB15 flight stick for controls. The OG guns were MASSIVE cabinet mounted deals. Even if you can find one in working order, dealing with it would be it's own special nightmare.
But its an absolutely awesome game that more people should check out if given the opportunity. I wish SNK would revisit the franchise outside of a weird mobile game from a few years back.